Word: indo-china
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...Prompt reprisal for Japan's invasion of Indo-China came when the U. S.: 1. Embargoed scrap iron and steel exports to Japan. 2. Threatened war if Japan moved further in Indo-China. 3. Sent the whole U. S. Navy to the Pacific. 4. Suddenly cut off all U. S. exports to Japan. 5. Invited China to a war conference...
...magazines are the day-by-day cables... from men like A.T. Steele of the Chicago Daily News, the N.Y. Times' Hallet Abend, and Tillman Durdin, and TIME's own T.H. White, who came via Harvard and the Chinese information ministry, and is now on the hot spot in Indo-China...
...France. The Indo-Chinese were willing to be liberated. The French were at last reaping the harvest of the particular brand of civilization they had sown in Indo-China. By exploiting 23,000,000 natives, 28,000 Frenchmen had arranged for themselves an attractive existence, including the extraction of a tidy income from 10,000 tons of opium sold annually to the population under Government license. They had built European towns with broad, immaculate avenues, spacious buildings, beautiful squares adorned with statues of the French great. Beyond the exclusive French quarter, in utmost squalor and poverty, lived the native population...
Economically the French kept Indo-China in swaddling clothes. They had done little with the colony's extensive deposits of iron ore, tin, antimony, wolframite, manganese and zinc. But from the concentrated cultivation of rice and rubber and the sale to the natives of manufactured goods made in France, more than three billion francs went to France from Indo-China every year. The native standard of living remained one of the lowest in the world. The harvest of this policy was hate. A recent straw vote taken in a native high school revealed that, of 300 boys, only...
...Indo-China fits into Japanese economy like a key in a keyhole. Japan is hungry, has been since the beginning of the Sino-Japanese war. The annual Indo-Chinese rice surplus of more than one million tons would go far towards filling Japanese bellies. Japan has large stocks of textiles and manufactured gadgets in her warehouses. French Indo-China can buy them. Last week the Indo-Chinese were ready to regard the New Order as something distinctly desirable...